Mimix Availability

MIMIX: Simplified Availability in a Complex World

MIMIX Availability virtually eliminates planned and unplanned downtime with innovative features that minimize the administration of high availability and ensure data integrity. Scalable from SMB to Enterprise, MIMIX Availability integrates into your IT environment to protect your data and keep mission critical applications running 24x7x365. Whether you are a small business with basic HA needs or a large enterprise with complex topologies needs, MIMIX delivers the functionality, flexibility and simplicity you require, complete with the world-class, browser based Vision Solutions Portal interface. MIMIX Global, a companion to MIMIX Availability, fully integrates with IASP and SAN based technologies offered by PowerHA for IBM i to extend and enhance their capabilities. Protection of data not supported by PowerHA along with disaster recovery protection of all data to additional nodes, gives you a greater degree of confidence that your systems are ready to switch whenever the need arises. Control of daily PowerHA operations from an easy, intuitive interface is provided by the Vision Solutions Portal, the browser-based user interface for MIMIX Availability.

Simplified Management

The Vision Solutions ® Portal (VSP) simplifies the management of your availability environment with at-a-glance monitoring and intuitive control from any device with a browser. VSP is easily customized to meet an administrator’s needs and style, allowing you to manage your HA environment in just minutes a day.

Vision Solutions® Portal

Convenient monitoring and control from any location and any device with a browser

Simple to use interface provides at-a-glance monitoring and intuitive control

Easily customizable to meet your needs and working style

Provides real-time information about your environment in an easy-to-read form

Single view of multiple instances of MIMIX Availability for IBM i and Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX

Integrates with PowerHA for IBM i environments to provide monitoring and control from a single interface

Provides a single point of switch for multiple data groups

Allows you to manage your HA in only minutes a day

Configure once and share standard configurations with multiple VSP users

Subscribe to selected MIMIX events and to be alerted via email if these events occur

Analyzes system health and can be configured to automatically perform optimizations

Provides over 70 localizable, graphical reports

Allows easy comparison of system snapshots to identify trends

Supplies the ability to demonstrate compliance with SLAs through reports

How it Works

MIMIX Availability transparently replicates applications, data and system values in real time from a production server to a backup server. Leveraging the IBM i operating system’s advanced journaling features, along with other change capture and replication mechanisms, MIMIX Availability ensures that the secondary system is always a complete, ready-to-run backup system.

If you need to shut down the primary server for maintenance, you can rapidly switch operations to the backup server, which can be located anywhere in the world. In addition, MIMIX Availability can detect when the primary system becomes unavailable and, at your option, automatically fail over to the backup system, minimizing business downtime.

When the primary server is available again, MIMIX Availability will automatically resynchronize the two servers by replicating any changes made on the secondary system. Then, when you are ready, you can easily switch users back to the primary system. MIMIX Availability’s advanced autonomics seek out discrepancies in the replicated data and correct any errors, without the need for operator intervention. Your backup system is always “switch-ready” – available to assume responsibility for running your critical operations at a moment’s notice.